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Jakub Moc posted <55309248.20051226185355@g.o>, excerpted below, |
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on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:53:55 +0100: |
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> 26.12.2005, 18:07:45, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:57:17 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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>> | alsa - this does not make most sense definitely, this horrible thing |
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>> | needs to die. |
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>> Why? On x86, alsa is the least broken sound system, and on x86, the |
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>> target for the default profiles is desktops, and most desktops have |
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>> soundcards. |
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> Uh eh... I meant *arts*, no clue how I wrote alsa. |
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USE=arts is a great default, again, by the definition already given "for |
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packages that can optionally support arts, should it be enabled by default |
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or not". Most of the arts-optional packages will be KDE. KDE by default |
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should be arts-aware, at least in KDE 3.x. 4.x will be a different |
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matter, but with 3.x, while KDE /can/ run without arts, it's /designed/ to |
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run /with/ arts, so that's the entirely logical default. |
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Of course, there are packages such as xmms that don't have an direct |
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relationship to KDE save that they optionally support arts. Great! For |
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such packages there's this user-configurable file in /etc/portage called |
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package.use. For those that don't want arts at all, simply set -arts in |
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make.conf and be done with it. Meanwhile, USE=arts remains an entirely |
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logical default. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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